India, March 30 -- Some days ago, a social media post coerced someone to attach a rejoinder that the khakhi shorts of the highest judicial chair of the country were peeking out. His Lordship is not the only jurist attracting such comments. The Supreme Court of India's continued disinclination to amputate an ostensibly unconstitutional Constitution Order lends some credence to such theories.

The recent judgment of the Supreme Court to continue the marginalisation of those in the peripheries based on their religious identity is revelatory in itself. The learned arbiters who claim the intelligence to settle disputes are unable to perceive the discrimination that has steeped itself into the social composition and adjudicate in favour of thos...